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* CliffhangerCopout: We're told that Begbie waking up from his coma and grabbing Simon's hand as Simon was drawing a penis on his face at the end of ''Porno'' was just an involuntary spasm. Simon wonders if Begbie is planning some long-term revenge but nothing comes of it.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: An advertising point was that one of the main four characters wouldn't survive the book. It's [[spoiler:Spud Murphy]] incase you're wondering.
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* EmbarrassingLastName: There's an actor called Chuck Ponce who didn't realize what his stage name meant in the [=UK=].
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* FailOSuckyName: There's an actor called Chuck Ponce who didn't realize what his stage name meant in the [=UK=].
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* LastSupperSteal: Begbie's [=DMT=] hallucination is himself at a ''Art/TheLastSupper''-style dinner with several people who are now dead. He claims the image of the last supper was always caused by [=DMT=] hallucination ls and predates Jesus.
* MediumShiftGag: When anybody trips on [=DMT=], the text changes to a comic-strip for a page.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Euan is a foot doctor but that doesn't stop Symes blackmailing him into removing kidneys.
* OffTheWagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in ''Literature/{{Porno}}'', Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead.
* OffTheWagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in ''Literature/{{Porno}}'', Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead.
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* LastSupperSteal: Begbie's [=DMT=] hallucination is himself at a ''Art/TheLastSupper''-style dinner with several people who are now dead. He claims the image of the last supper was always caused by [=DMT=] hallucination ls and predates Jesus.
* MediumShiftGag: When anybody trips on [=DMT=], the text changes to a comic-strip for a page.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Euan is a foot doctor but that doesn't stop Symes blackmailing him into removing kidneys.
* OffTheWagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in ''Literature/{{Porno}}'', Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead.
* MediumShiftGag: When anybody trips on [=DMT=], the text changes to a comic-strip for a page.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Euan is a foot doctor but that doesn't stop Symes blackmailing him into removing kidneys.
* OffTheWagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in ''Literature/{{Porno}}'', Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead.
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* SeriesContinuityError: Mark loses the last of his money to Second Prize who demands to be paid back the money Mark stole in ''Trainspotting'', even though Mark already paid him back in ''Literature/{{Porno}}''. Second Prize throw the money away because he'd found religion but Mark no longer owes him.
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* LastSupperSteal: Begbie's [=DMT=] hallucination is himself at a last supper-style ''Art/TheLastSupper''-style dinner with several people who are now dead. He claims the image of the last supper was always caused by [=DMT=] hallucination ls and predates Jesus.
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* ChainedToARailway: One of Begbie's paintings ''Blood on the Tracks'' depicts a man who subconsciously made to look like Renton tied to train tracks.
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* ChainedToARailway: One of Begbie's paintings ''Blood on the Tracks'' depicts a man who he subconsciously made to look like Renton tied to train tracks.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Renton's martial arts training from the previous book, which he learned to defend himself from Begbie, ironically gets used to save Begbie's life towards the end of the book.
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* MeatgrinderSurgery: [[spoiler: Spud]] ends up on the receiving end of this to remove his kidney to replace the one he lost. It's performed by a [[NotThatKindOfDoctor foot doctor]], a gangster, and a crew of fuckups using a '' Website/YouTube'' tutorial. [[spoiler: Complications from the surgery contribute to Spud's death.]]
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* AssShove: The police come to talk to Sick Boy when Marianne is riding him in the ass with a strap-on dildo while a sex worker does the same to her. Doubles as a Callback to ''Literature/{{Skagboys}}, where Alison does the same to Sick Boy and he discovers he likes it.
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* AssShove: The police come to talk to Sick Boy when Marianne is riding him in the ass with a strap-on dildo while a sex worker does the same to her. Doubles as a Callback to ''Literature/{{Skagboys}}, ''Literature/{{Skagboys}}'', where Alison does the same to Sick Boy and he discovers he likes it.
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* OffTheWagon: In contrast to his recovery and finding religion in ''Literature/{{Porno}}'', Second Prize appears in a single scene and looks so worn from drink that he appears almost dead.
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* AssShove: The police come to talk to Sick Boy when Marianne is riding him in the ass with a strap-on dildo.l while a sex worker does the same to her.
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* AssShove: The police come to talk to Sick Boy when Marianne is riding him in the ass with a strap-on dildo.l dildo while a sex worker does the same to her.her. Doubles as a Callback to ''Literature/{{Skagboys}}, where Alison does the same to Sick Boy and he discovers he likes it.
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* UseYourHead: Renton headbutts Sick Boy and breaks his nose after he scams him at the auction.
* YourCheatingHeart: Euan cheats on his wife and Renton cheats on Vicky. Both of them with Marianne.
* YourCheatingHeart: Euan cheats on his wife and Renton cheats on Vicky. Both of them with Marianne.
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* UseYourHead: Renton headbutts Sick Boy and breaks his nose after he scams him at the auction.
* YourCheatingHeart: Euan cheats on his wife and Renton cheats on Vicky. Both of them with Marianne.auction.
* YourCheatingHeart: Euan cheats on his wife and Renton cheats on Vicky. Both of them with Marianne.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Spud has a dog called Toto which he named after [[Music/{{Toto}} the band]] and didn't realize there was a dog called Toto in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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* AfterlifeExpress: Begbie has another fantasy similar to his [=DMT=] hallucinations where he has dinner with his dead enemies. He said the dining room felt like a bus terminal or a railway station where they'd move on and go somewhere else when they finished their meals.
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* BatterUp: Renton [[spoiler:beats the cop that's stalking Melanie and about to shoot Begbie near to death with a baseball bat that Begbie got from an old client.]]
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* IdenticalGrandson: Renton is shocked at how Spud's son Andrew looks like a younger version of his father.
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* JobStealingRobot: When Andrew talks about Spud getting laid off, he says in five or ten years his job as a lawyer will be made redundant by artificial intelligence.
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* NeverSuicide: Begbie [[spoiler:drugs Harry and hangs him from the ceiling hoping to make it look like a suicide, but the roof collapses.]]
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* TitleDrop: Mark notes that people are nothing but a work in progress until we die and fall into the world of dead men's trousers.
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* ChainedToARailway: One of Begbie's paintings ''Blood on the Tracks'' depicts a man in tied to train tracks.
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* AssShove: The police come to talk to Sick Boy when Marianne is riding him in the ass with a strap-on dildo.l while a sex worker does the same to her.
* CampGay: Sick Boy is disappointed that his son isn't one of these and tries to outdo one he meets on a plane at being over the top.
* CampStraight: Sick Boy mentions being straight but camp as a row of tents.
* ChainedToARailway: One of Begbie's paintings ''Blood on the Tracks'' depicts a manin who subconsciously made to look like Renton tied to train tracks.
* CampGay: Sick Boy is disappointed that his son isn't one of these and tries to outdo one he meets on a plane at being over the top.
* CampStraight: Sick Boy mentions being straight but camp as a row of tents.
* ChainedToARailway: One of Begbie's paintings ''Blood on the Tracks'' depicts a man
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* EyeScream: One of the pictures at Begbie's art exhibition is a painting of Creator/JimmySavile with his eyes gouged out.
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* EyeScream: EyeScream;
** One of the pictures at Begbie's art exhibition is a painting of Creator/JimmySavile with his eyes gougedout.out.
** Begbie [[spoiler:gouges out Some's eyes and stuffs his kidneys in the sockets.]]
** One of the pictures at Begbie's art exhibition is a painting of Creator/JimmySavile with his eyes gouged
** Begbie [[spoiler:gouges out Some's eyes and stuffs his kidneys in the sockets.]]
* GroinAttack;
** When Begbie's making two drunk men fight eachother, he kicks one of them in the balls.
** Begbie [[spoiler:castrates Symes with a sword.]]
** When Begbie's making two drunk men fight eachother, he kicks one of them in the balls.
** Begbie [[spoiler:castrates Symes with a sword.]]
* StraightGay: Sick Boy is disappointed in his son for being one because he doesn't see the point in being gay if you aren't outrageous.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: An advertising point was that one of the main four characters wouldn't survive the book.book.
* YourCheatingHeart: Euan cheats on his wife and Renton cheats on Vicky. Both of them with Marianne.
* YourCheatingHeart: Euan cheats on his wife and Renton cheats on Vicky. Both of them with Marianne.
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* POVSequel: Starts with the ending of ''The Blade Artist'' from Denton's point of view.
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* ChainedToARailway: One of Begbie's paintings ''Blood on the Tracks'' depicts a man in tied to train tracks.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: ''Literature/TheBladeArtist'' mentioned that an actor called Chuck Ponce visited Begbie in prison while researching a role and promised they'd stay friends when Begbie got out but then ignored all Frank's attempts to contact him. Here he contacts Begbie about commissioning some art [[spoiler:and gets pushed off a cliff for his trouble.]]
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Mikey Forrester's hatred of Renton is explains that a woman was stringing Mikey along for months to get free drugs then casually slept with Mark.
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* TakeAThirdOption: When Begbie refuses to take the money Mark owes him, Sick Boy suggests Mark use it to bid on some of Begbie's artwork.
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* TakeAThirdOption: When Begbie refuses to take the money Mark owes him, Sick Boy suggests Mark use it to bid on some of Begbie's artwork. [[spoiler:Sick Boy then persuades Mikey Forrester to bid against Mark to jack up the price. Then Begbie decides he want a now cleaned out Renton to pay back the drug deal money as well as buying the art.]]
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Renton feels [=DMT=] does this to him.
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* MediumShiftGag: When Mark's tripping on [=DMT=], the text changes to a comic-strip for a page.
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* LastSupperSteal: Begbie's [=DMT=] hallucination is himself at a last supper-style dinner with several people who are now dead. He claims the image of the last supper was always caused by [=DMT=] hallucination ls and predates Jesus.
* MediumShiftGag: WhenMark's tripping anybody trips on [=DMT=], the text changes to a comic-strip for a page.
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* NotThatKindOfDoctor: Euan is a foot doctor but that doesn't stop Symes blackmailing him into removing kidneys.
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* TaughtByTelevision: Symes has to learn how to [[spoiler:remove Spud's kidney]] by watching a ''Website/YouTube'' video from a laptop sitting on his chest. Nearly kills him when the battery starts to go.
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* FailOSuckyName: There's an actor called Chuck Ponce who didn't realize what his stage name meant in the [=UK=].
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* OrganTheft: [[spoiler:Spud gets a kidney removed to make up for the one he was supposed to deliver but was eaten by his dog.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Sick Boy complains about the odds about he and Mark being in Berlin at the same time when he was so hard to get hold of when he owed Sick Boy money.
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* IHaveYourWife: Symes keeps Spud's dog, Toto until he goes through with the second kidney delivery.
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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Begbie performs it on Spud pretty easily when he starts suffocating while Frank's making a plaster cast of his head.
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* LateComingOut: Sick Boy's son Ben comes out to him.
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* StickySituation: One of the [=DJ=]s Renton represents falls asleep before a gig and another glues a dildo to his forehead. He has to go on like that and pretends it's part of his act, then gets it removed at a hospital.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: An advertising point was that one of the main four characters wouldn't survive the book.
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[[Creator/IrvineWelsh Irvine Welsh's]] sequel to ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'' and ''Literature/{{Porno}}''.
* ImmediateSequel: Begins with the ending of the Begbie spin-off ''Literature/TheBladeArtist''.
* POVSequel: Starts with the ending of ''The Blade Artist'' from Denton's point of view.
* ImmediateSequel: Begins with the ending of the Begbie spin-off ''Literature/TheBladeArtist''.
* POVSequel: Starts with the ending of ''The Blade Artist'' from Denton's point of view.
